4 Background for Slides Use a dark background, such as shown here.Dark blue is most easily viewedby most people and recommended.

5 Text Font and Color Use the largest size fonts that fit withthe space on the slide.Use bold font styles.Yellow or white font color isrecommended.

6 Never use red on a blue background like this.Text Font and ColorNever use red on a blue background like this.

7 Text Font and Color Remember that many in theaudience will not have perfect visionand some will be color blind.Plan for a large presentation room. Uselarge bold fonts that will be visible fromall parts of a large room.

9 Company Affiliation Do NOT place your company name or logoon the footer or header of the slides.Company names and logos are onlyto be on the first slide.Reference to any specific commercial item isto be made generically for the rest of the slides.

10 CommercialismTo say the least, it is very poor etiquette to deliver a “sales pitch” on the pretext of a technical presentation.

35 EquationsAssumptions and conditions that make your equations accurately capture the essence of a process (with results) will be much more useful to a general ANTEC audience rather than a mathematical development.

43 Content Keep the content of the slides closeto the content of the paper.

44 Content The best presentations generally teachthe audience an important and usefulaspect of your topic.Provide useful conclusions andrecommendations that are backed byquality data.

45 Content State the goals of the presentation at the start of the talk.Slide titles should follow the paper sections.IntroductionMaterialsEquipmentResultsConclusions (or Summary)

46 ContentPresent the minimum amount of information on the slides needed to clearly introduce and outline your ideas to the audience.The details of the work should be in the paper, part of your supporting discussion, and used to answer questions.